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Includes copies of minutes from meetings of the Toronto chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and the Toronto Japanese Canadian Citizens Association (TJCCA); 35 cassette tapes with recordings of various NAJC/TJCCA meetings, concerning Japanese Canadian redress.

Manuscripts, correspondence, research and other material related to Polanyi's life and work.

Research notes on Bartolme Jose Gallardo, and northeastern North American place names; holograph, typescript and printed works; a typed bibliography.

Correspondence on the bilingual school issue in 1915.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Osler family news and the social history of Upper Canada.

Collection contains journals (dated 1791-1792 and 1796-1812) of the fur trader and surveyor.

The collection consists of letters and documents relating to the construction of a canal from the river Rhone at Donzere to the river Aigue near Rochegude.

Correspondence, drawings, drafts, proofs, production materials and printed ephemera by and about private press printers, including The Typophiles.

The collection consists of correspondence between Agudas Israel and H.B. Eisner concerning a land claim in Palestine that was finally settled to the benefit of Eisner. Some family correspondence between Eisner and family members during his trips to Palestine in 1931 and 1935 is also included.

The collection consists of correspondence, lecture and research notes concerning Leo's research on Dante, Tasso and Petrarch, mainly during his tenure at the University of Toronto.

Typescript of unpublished reminiscences of pioneers and pioneering in Alberta and Manitoba.

Correspondence among Vilhjalmur Stefansson, James Mavor and Ramsay Wright concerning the ethnological expedition to Eskimos of the Mackenzie Delta undertaken by Stefansson in 1906-1907 under the auspices of Harvard University and the University of Toronto; photographs and photonegatives of students and faculty in the natural and biological sciences, include Professors Ramsay Wright, Archibald Macallum and Archibald Huntsman. Various U of T publications and brochures, etc (see file list for more information).

Personal records documenting the career of Joseph McCulley, Headmaster of Pickering College (1927-1947), Deputy Commissioner of Penitentiaries (1947-1952) and Warden of Hart House (1952-1965); includes personal correspondence, student course notes, scrapbooks, and photographs. Papers also include minutes and correspondence relating to various committees and associations in which McCulley was active such as the YMCA War Services Committee (1947-50) and the United Nations Association (1966-1967). Records not only document Hart House but would be of interest to researchers investigating penitentiary reform, juvenile delinquency and the education of youths.

Personal papers of Prof. John Marshall, Faculty of Information Studies covering his career as librarian and professor of library science at the University of Toronto. Includes records relating to his role on the Canadian Libraries Association subcommittee on Library technician programs including articles, workshops, surveys, research materials etc. Also included are records relating to the Ontario Provincial Consultative Committee and files on other community colleges and universities. Biographical file documents his firing in 1954 from Victoria Public Library and public apology by the Board of VPL in 1998.

This fonds contains the records of the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael's College, including the records of the Dean of the Faculty, other administrative records and correspondence, admission records of students, and other materials.

This fonds contains the records of the Treasurer's Office of the University of St. Michael's College from 1852 to 1989. The records include ledgers, ledger cards, cased files, accounts payable, and correspondence about student fees. Ledgers record College expenditures, fees and tuition paid by students. Also included are invoices, receipts, mortgages, insurance, and information on College properties.

This fonds contains files on alumni of St. Michael's College. Files can include photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and personal artifacts. In some cases, these materials were sent to the Archives by family members of alumni, while other materials were collected by staff or faculty of the University.

This fonds contains the records of the St. Michael's College Student Union (known earlier in its history as the St. Michael's College Students' Administrative Council). Included are minutes of meetings (1936-1986), financial records, and photographs of student events and council members.

Video cassette of Dunlap Family home movie of the Royal Visit of Japanese Prince and Princes Takamatsu at their home, 93 Highland Ave., May 1931. VHS format

Reels of 16 mm film, approx. 3000 ft in total, documenting Canadian and University of Toronto track teams competing at meets. Vaar took the film as a freelance cameraman. Much of the footage was sold to the CBC for news items.

Collection of 8 pamphlets relating to University of Toronto with mss annotations by James Patton. Pamphlets included are: "The university question considered: by a graduate" (1845), "Wesleyan conference memorial on the question of liberal education in Upper Canada, explained and defended by numerous proofs and illustrations, by a committee".(1860), "University reform. Report of the resolutions adopted at a great public meeting of the inhabitants of Kingston..." (1861), "Address before the select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the management of the University of Toronto..." by Daniel Wilson (1860), "Report of the commissioners appointed to enquire into the expenditure of the funds of the University of Toronto, and into the state of its financial affairs..." (1862), "University reform defended: in reply to six editorials of the 'Globe' and 'Leader'..." by a committee of the Wesleyan Conference (1863), "Defence of the plan of University reform proposed by the Senate of the University of Toronto..." (1863), "Statutes of the University of Toronto, 1857".

Personal records of James Barron, student of Forestry at the University of Toronto in the 1930s. Includes notes and exercise books from his student days, as well as some employment records and evidence of work done for the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Also includes some photographs of forestry work and study, depictions of Killala Lake, Abitibi camps, Owakonze, Lake Temagami, Great Lakes Lumber, Long Lake, Marathon Paper Mills, and Manitou Falls.

Photographs of or relating to Lt. Col. John McCrae

Copies of material on T. F. McIlwraith, professor of Anthropology, including his memorial volume. Also copies of some original correspondence and addresses of McIwraith.

Records of the Walter Frisby Fellowship, formerly known as the Public Speaking Association and now changed name to Dr. Zoltan Mester Fellowship. Include correspondence, minutes of meetings, notices, financial statements, reminiscences and a gavel.

Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, manuscripts, articles, brochures, reviews, photoprints and maps documenting the production of the Economic Atlas of Ontario which appeared in 1969. The project was directed by Professor William Dean of the Department of Geography.

The production of the Economic Atlas of Ontario was undertaken by the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto by a group of staff and graduate students headed by Professor William Dean. The principal financial sponsors were the Ontario Department of Economics and Development and the University of Toronto through the "Varsity Fund".

Its purpose was to provide new insights into the complexity of economic activities in Ontario and their relationship to the physical and behavioural environments. When the Atlas appeared in 1969, it was immediately recognized as a superlative example of its genre, both for the information it provided and for its design. In 1970 it won the world's highest international design award, the gold medal at the International Book Fair in Leipzig. In 1973 it received the Wallace W. Atwood Prize for "the work which is of greatest significance and which has made the greatest contribution to the field of geography in the continent".

This accession holds records relating to Prof. Irving’s university education, manuscripts of some published and unpublished works, correspondence mainly relating to his professional and academic activities both before and during his years at the University of Toronto, and administrative records of the Northern Yukon Research programme during his years as director. Records relating to his work with the National Museum of Man (1964-1968), as well as artifacts, data and research materials etc. relating to the Northern Yukon Research Programme (1975-1980) are held by the Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives in Ottawa.
Other materials not contained in this accession include most of his lecture notes and other teaching materials relating to the courses he taught during his nearly 20 years at the University of Toronto. As well, there is only a sampling of his manuscripts of published and unpublished works. Records relating to his field work for both American and Canadian museums during his thirty year career will not be found here but may have survived, as noted above, with the individual institutions.

Architectural plans of university buildings including architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and design drawings. Buildings include: Mechanical Engineering Building, the School of Nursing, Dentistry Building, Lash Miller Chemistry Building, the Examination Hall and Victoria College Library addition.
Electronic copies of all drawings of the Lash Miller Chemistry Building are also available on CD.

This accession of the Blake Wrong Family Fonds consists mainly of family portraits, small photographs and one album. Included are portraits of Samuel and Rebecca Blake, Gerald, Margaret, Francis and Vershoyle Blake as well as Harold, Murray and Hume Wrong.

There is also some memorabilia belonging to various members of the Wrong and Blake families including Harold Wrong, Murray Wrong and Gerald Blake. There are items relating to Ridley College (1906, 1923), to the Kappa Alpha Society (1911-1916), as well as two booklets of poems: 1) Verses by Harold Wrong, and 2) By-Products 1911-1919 by Murray Wrong. As well, there are there two pieces of correspondence written by Gerald Blake from the front during World War I.

Records documenting the career of Dr. H. Leverne Williams as a chemical engineer and distinguished polymer scientist. Includes papers, articles, addresses, reviews, correspondence, manuscripts, association files, lectures, reports, certificates and photographs. Records cover both his research at Polymer Corporation (Sarnia, Ont.) 1946-1967 and his work as a faculty member of the Department of Chemical Engineering 1967-82, as well as Professor Emeritus from 1982 until his death in 1994.

This accession contains the following series of records. See series description for further details:

Series 1: Professional correspondence
Series 2: Manuscripts, addresses and reports
Series 3: Reviews
Series 4: Association files
Series 5: Chemical Engineering Research Consultants Limited
Series 6: Laboratory notebooks
Series 7: Graphic records
Series 8: Diplomas and honours

Contains one photograph of an ice hockey team in which H. H. Wilkinson played in 1905 (see top left hand). It also contains one pastel coloured photograph of H. H. Wilkinson and his wife, presumably taken in 1900s or 1910s.

Correspondence, minutes anad reports of the Federal-Provincial Study on Public Housing and Urban Renewal assembled by its Director, Professor James A. Murray. The Study was conducted for the Ontario Association of Housing Authorities through the School of Architecture. Includes also correspondence and programme for the 12th Annual Conference of the Association.

Correspondence, reports and financial statements of the Royal Canadian Institute; and correspondence of the Committee on General Entymological Terms.

Two notes from Wishart to Dr. C .K. Clarke and to President Falconer concerning conference expenses and use of Toronto General Hospital by the military at the end of World War I.

Correspondence, manuscript notes and 2 photographs belonging to David M. Turnbull (1906-1995), former Vice-president, Health Sciences , and Executive Assistant to the Dean of Faculty of Medicine, John Hamilton, during the time of the construction of the Medical Sciences building. Includes one group photo presumed to be of audience watching ceremony re Medical Sciences Building and group photo of D.I Turnbull with Mr. and Mrs. R.R. McLaughlin (1967). Also includes a typescript "History of Woods, Gordon & Co."

Correspondence, reports, course and lecture notes, photoprints, etc., documenting the career of H.J.C. Ireton as a professor of physics; included are files of professors James Loudon, J.C. McLennan, and E.F. Burton.

"For the Record" Exhibit installed at the gallery of the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 7 Sept to 1 December 1986: includes title blocks, scrapbook of graduates from 1920's to 1950's; and microfiche copy of exhibit and scrapbook; correspondence, press clippings relating to Marjorie Hill.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions

B1986-0025: Manuscripts and published copies of address and proposal by T. Kennard Thomson, consulting engineer, relating to hydroelectric development including map, plan and photograph of the Peace Bridge and other projects. (1 box, 1917-1920)

B1993-0027: Correspondence, certificates, reports, programmes, articles, photoprints, glass negatives, lantern, slides and architectural drawings documenting Kennard Thomson's career as a consulting engineer in New York and elsewhere and his relationship with the University of Toronto Engineering Society which he founded. (6 boxes and numerous oversize folders, 1871-1952)

Contains correspondence, source files on almanacs and publications by Ms. Tod and others in her field.

Photographs of Charles Totton and classmates of the biological and physical sciences course. Included are informal views of students in laboratories including one during a dissection. There is also a formal group photograph of the Biological and Physical Sciences Class of 1907 as well as Totton's graduation portrait and diplomas. Also included is the programme of the University College Ninth Annual Dinner complete with signatures of classmates, professors as well as the guest of honour Sir Wilfred Laurier.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1972-0032: Minutes of executive meetings, reports, constitution, account book, budget and audited financial statement (1 box, 1961-1969)

B1974-0009: Correspondence and press clippings relating to the association's fund raising to build a new women's residence (1 box, 1920-1932).

Photograph albums of the production of "Antigone" by the students of the University, February 15-17, 1894, with a copy of the program.

Constitution, correspondence, minutes, memoranda and reports documenting the activities of the Music Graduate Students' Association.

Invitations to University of Toronto social events (1906-07, 1923); examinations for the teacher's course in arts (1921, 1922), and an armband (?) in coloured stripes and bearing the word "Committee".

Thesis report and drawings by Charles Worsley, student in the Department of Architecture through the early 1940s entitled "Proposals for the future development of the town of Weston and its surrounding area".

Correspondence, grant applications, subject files, lecture notes, manuscripts for publications;slides, photos and sound recordings relating to his career as a psychologist.

Fonds consists of 2 accessions:

B1977-0019: Membership, correspondence, minutes of meetings, constitution and papers presented (2 boxes, 1905-1969)

B1977-0042: List of members and subject, supplement, constitution and correspondence (1 box, 1905-1973).

Consists of notebooks and bibliographic material on European history and international relations compiled by Profesor Glazebrook, as well as a looseleaf British history notebook for use in schools, compiled by W.E.M. Aitken.

Certificates, annotated publications, and a photograph relating to three generations of members of the McKeown family. University of Toronto students include Patrick Walter Hughes McKeown, BA 1887 (University College), MD CM (Trinity Medical College), 1889, and Walter Woods ('Woody') McKeown, Arts (University College), 1911-12, who served in World War I and then attended Osgoode Hall. Other family members represented include Patrick McKeown, Winnie McKeown and Margaret Woods.